While on liberty, their newfound wealth opens the doors to a stream of gorgeous and sexy dames. Mickey, never satisfied, always craving more, proposes to one in San Diego and another in China, convinced that with his kismet he can swing a double life. His run of luck is further validated when Mickey wins the respect of Big-eared Wu, a powerful, wealthy Chinese Tong with a hatred and distrust of cocky Americans. Inconceivably, Wu agrees to build Mickey two casinos; one in Vegas, another in ...

Forged in conflict, the United States of America has been at war in one form or another for over two hundred years, and at peace for just seventeen. Within seventy-eight mostly undeclared wars, over a million souls have sadly perished. In a historical anthology, novelist Max Blue shares forty-nine chapters from his twelve published novels set against the backdrop of Americas wars. Divided into six parts, Blues stories detail diverse battles that include World War I; the economic war of the...

Luz Stella wanted the world to be a better place. When she found it to be otherwise, she did not hesitate to do all in her power to change it.Bismark Pacheco was there to do his part-to save the world, and to save Luz Stella. Or was it the other way around?When Pacheco loses his passport in a desperate deep water escape from a Cape Canaveral Cruise ship, the two seek help in Birmingham from their old friend Wilson Abut. The former quarterback, now a journalist, stirs the po...

Spring is here and so is a new issue of Your Impossible Voice! For our twenty-fourth issue, we have daring new work from Jesus Quintero, Bri Stoever, Rebeca Abidail Flores, Curt Saltzman, Doina Ruști (translated by Ileana Marin) Max Blue, Isabella Rae Barrengos, Nadia Villafuerte (translated by Pennell Somsen), Monica Macansantos, Gabriela Ruivo Trindade (translated by Andrew McDougall), Kathleen Bryson, Edward Smallfield, Kristin Fogdall, Valerie Coulton, and Peter Grandbois. Cover art by...

Meet the men of Manning Grove, three small-town cops and brothers, who meet the women who will change the rest of their lives. This is Max's story...Big city party-girl Amanda Barber has been spoiled most of her life. But life for Amanda suddenly becomes a major challenge: adapting to small-town life, dealing with her special needs brother, and constantly butting heads with a frustrating local cop.As a police officer and former Marine, "responsibility" is Max Bryso...

One day in 1914, a young man took to the air, and a legend was born...Dicken Quinney never forgot that first flight in a fragile contraption of sealing-wax and string, the start of a lifelong obsession with flying.He was to spend the next four years in the deadly cut-and-thrust of aerial dogfights over France and Italy, collecting a chestful of medals, and a reputation as one of the Great War's leading aces.He would hone his skills in an array of ...

Maximilian"Mad Max" Keegan finds himself in a dangerous and desperate situation. Injured, hunted, he and Juggernaut, his fierce military working dog, are lost deep in the jungle until he's discovered by Dr. Renata Cavalcante, who's there to document Paraguayan treasures at the behest of her mentor, an international, renowned anthropologist. Max isn't used to being the one in need of rescuing, but this take charge beauty is a lifesaver, and the dire situation overrules his macho attitude an...

The Russian master's most infamous novel, a dystopian fever dream about cloning, alternative histories, and world domination.Blue Lard is an act of desecration. Blue Lard is what's left after the towering masterpieces of Russian literature have been blown to smithereens, the most graphic, shocking, controversial, and celebrated book to be published in Russia since the end of Communism. Denounced as an abomination on publication in 1999—a crowd of ...

Meet the men of Manning Grove, three small-town cops and brothers, who meet the women who will change the rest of their lives. This is Max's story...Big city party-girl Amanda Barber has been spoiled most of her life. But life for Amanda suddenly becomes a major challenge: adapting to small-town life, dealing with her special needs brother, and constantly butting heads with a frustrating local cop.As a police officer and former Marine, "responsibil...

Hermann Gring, Erwin Rommel, Manfred von Richthofen, Paul von Hindenburg, Helmuth von Moltke, Ernst Junger, Max Immelmann they were among the most famous individuals to be awarded the Kingdom of Prussias highest military order, the Pour le Mrite, better known as the Blue Max. Until the end of the Great War the Blue Max was the most prestigious accolade, a German serviceman could wish for. Yet fictions and myths about the Blue Max have obscured its long and fascinating history. Kevin Brazie...

Le destin tragique d'Amin qui aurait tant voulu tuer son idole du blues pour conjurer son sort.Un boxeur poursuit un chanteur de blues d'une haine criminelle. Résumée de la sorte, l'intrigue rassemble deux éléments : la boxe et le blues, qui sont deux passions de l'auteur. Max Obione recycle les clichés du genre et nous plonge au coeur du "deep south" des Etats-Unis, entre Louisiane et Mississipi, sur lequel plane la mémoire du désormais mythique Robert Johnson. Tous les in...

Wien in den 80er und 90er Jahren. Wer damals nach Wien zum Studieren oder Arbeiten kam oder ohnehin in der Stadt geboren ward, kann ein Lied erzählen … von einer grauen Stadt voller Hundstrümmerl, als man noch in Schilling bezahlte und erstmals coole Lokale aus dem Asphalt wuchsen. Dieser humorvolle und historisch-persönliche Sammelband soll vielfältige Eindrücke des damaligen Nachtlebens vermitteln. Als die heute Über-Fünfzigjährigen jung und hungrig (durstig) waren nach Nachtleben, Gleic...